[Farmall] Cultivator Colors

[Mike Sloane]

To the best of my knowledge, the *rear* rims were not "silver" - they 
were bare metal that was treated with cadmium plating. For any number of 
reasons, cadmium plating is not longer done, so most folks use aluminum 
("silver") paint to replicate the color. In actual fact, the cadmium was 
somewhat more yellow than the aluminum color.

But the front wheels were either red or "IH White", which is actually 
off-white and sometimes referred to a "cream".

Mike

On 1/6/2012 11:48 AM, Kevin Weinstock wrote:
> Hi Folks !
>
> I've been following this discussion on correct colors and even went and read
> those pages listed below from the Wisconsin history site. In those pages was
> a reference to "cream colored rims".
>
> My, now deceased, Father-in-law had purchased a brand new 1948 Farmall H.
> When I first saw it in 1970, you couldn't tell what color anything on it was
> originally. About 8 years ago he kind of fixed it up and kind of painted it
> up. It looks fine, not show room fine, but I'm not embarrassed by it(I
> inherited it). But it always puzzled me as to why he painted the rims a
> cream color. I looked through more pages on that site and found a few
> mentions of cream rims but never found anything about silver rims. Yet I've
> never seen a restored tractor with cream rims. Does anyone know if cream was
> the color for rims in 1948 and/or when and why does everybody paint their
> tractor rims silver?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts
>
> Kevin